Manifolding salesbook



June 12, 1923. 11,458,265

v E. -K. BOTTLE Filed Sent. 50 9 ATTORNEY l atentedl dune TE, 1923.

unrran stares t eater Parent orator.

i EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SALEQ BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, A CORPORATION OF ONTARIO.

Y MANIFOLDING SALESBOOK.

Application filed September 30, 1919. Serial No. 327,372.

. To all whom it may concern Be it known that T, EDWARD K. BOTTLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elmira, in the county of Ohemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and.

useful Improvements in hfanifolding Salesbooks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper- 1o tains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to manifolding devices, and with respect to its more specific features to manifolding sales books.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of a manifolding sales book, of the character involving an intersheet, which is of such construction as ,to simplify the operation of the book, especially the separating of the checks from each other.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a practical manifolding sales book of the character referred to in which checks separated from the book, especially tissue checks, may be quickly identified with the books in which they originated.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following clai-ms.

lln the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and in which similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, there is.

represented a perspective view of a sales 4- book involving the invent-ion.

The invention is illustrated as embodied in a sales book composed of a series of sets of checks; each set including an original check 1 upon which the inscription is made,

a duplicate check 2 and a triplicate check 3, nne end of the triplicate being attached to one end of the original by a line of paste, indicated at 4:, independently of the fastening of the sets together in book form, as by the co staples hereinafter mentioned and lying between the original and duplicate checks, the three checks being in superimposed relation and forming a set. Any number of sets may be bodied in a book, one of the checks of such thickness as to render it desirable.

several sets of checks, one or more carbon.

sheets being employed where the book is of The numeral Qindicates a second carbon sheet. The original and duplicate checks 1 and 2 are preferably of opaque material and the triplicate check 3 is preferably of translucent material, although it may be of opaque material. One of the opaque checks, as for instance the duplicate check 2, has a stub portion 5 and the other opaque check 1 is attached thereto along a weakened line 10 opposite the stub portion and opposite the pasted end of the check. The original check 1 and the triplicate check or inter-sheet 3 are pasted together at the end of the original check, opposite the line 10, that is remote from the line of connection between the two opacue checks.

When the inscription is made the checks 1, 2 and 3 are in superposed relation, with the double faced carbon sheet 7 lying between the duplicate check 2 and triplicate check 3, so that any inscription made upon the outer original check 1 will be duplicated upon the under or inner opaque copy check 2 and the under or inner translucent copy check 3, the inscription being in reverse on the bottom face of the translucent check 3, but readily read through the translucent material as will be understood. After the inscription is made the three checks are detached or separated from the book by tearing along the weakened line 11 on the duplicate check 2 near the stub 5. Thereupon the duplicate check is parted from the assembled original and the triplicate checks by tearing along the weakened line 10, thew original and the duplicate being generally to. In the illustrated embodiment the weakened line 12 is between the pasted portion of the opaque check 1 and its opposite end. The material of the triplicate check 3 adjacent the pasted portion is of uniform strength, whereas the material of the check to which it is pasted, in the present embodiment the original check 1, is weakened adjacent the pasted line to facilitate tearing adjacent the line of paste so as to leave the reinforcing portion 13 attached to the triplicate and lessen liability of detaching the reinforcing portion from the triplicate in the tearing operation. It is to be observed that in the present embodiment the triplicate check has no weakened lines adjacent the line of paste connecting it to its companion check. Consequently the weakened check tends to tear more readily than the triplicate, and the weakened line, being in the outer check, is ordinarily in view in the normal operation of the book and the two checks may be readily handled and the major portion of the original manipulated without any special attention being required to prevent the triplicate from bein torn. The operation of separating the original from the triplicate should be facilitated as much as possible, especially where the triplicate is of tissue.

Books are made of various difi'erent colors and these colors are valuable to distinguish the character of the transaction, as for instance whether it is a cash or charge account. If a charge account, the transaction will be entered in, say, a pink book, whereas if it is a cash transaction it will be entered in a book of a difierent color. The colors of the books are mainly distinguishable by reason of the colors of the opaque leaves, the translucent or tissue leaves being ordinarily white. It will be observed that the reinforce 13 is a part of an opaque check and consequently has the color characteristics of the book in which it originated. In consequence, upon merely glancing at the reinforces 13 attached to the triplicates it will be apparent .to what character of transaction t e triplicate relates. Thus much time of comparison is saved by the use of the reinforces in addition to the feature of the strengthening of the thin tissue triplicates messes the triplicates andtheir reinforces may be perforated for filing purposes, as illustrated, f] for instance, at 14, which indicate holes through the reinforces 13 and the triplicates within the area, or line of, paste.

Thusby the above described construction are accomplished, among others, the objects her'einbefore referred to.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many a parently widely differentembodiments of tnsinvention could be made without departin from the scope thereof, it is intended that a l matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specifc features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as'new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a series of sets of checks, each set including three superposed checks, one of the checks of each set having a stub portion for binding purposes, two of the checks of each set being attached together and connected to the first check at, a side opposite its stub portion, one of said two attached checks being a translucent check of uniform strength adjacent the line of attachment therebetween and the other being an opaque check of a different color from the translucent check and having a weakened line alongside said line of attachment.

2. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a series of sets of checks, each set including three superposed checks, two of the checks of each set being attached together and connected toithe third check, one of said two attached checks being translucent of uniform strength adjacent the line of attachment therebetween and the other having a weakened line alongside said line of attachment and having color character- Lstiis similar to the other like checks of the 3. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination. a series of sets of checks, each set including three superposed checks, two of the checks of each set being attached together and connected to the third check,

one of said two attached checks being translucent of uniform strength adjacent the line of attachment therebetween and the other having a weakened line alongside said line of attachment and having color charactermesses istics similar to the other like checks of the book and diii'erent from those of said check of uniform strength.

4. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, -a series of sets of checks, each set including three superposed checks, one being of translucent material and the others o'paque, one of said opaquechecks having a stub portion for binding purposes, and connected to the other opaque check at the side opposite said stub portion, said tranlu'cent c eck and said last-mentioned opaque check being pasted together on a line remote from the line of connection between said two opaque checks, said translucent check being of uniform strength adjacent said pasted line and the opaque check of the two checks pasted together having a weakened tearing line alongside said line of paste on the same side of said line of paste as the line of connection between saidtwo opaque checks.

5. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in oomb irtation, a series of sets of checks stapled together to form a book, each set inc uding two checks superposed and pasted together at one end of each of the two to provide a. fastenin independently of the staples, one of sai two checks having'a weakened line between the pasted portion and its opposite end.

6. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a series of sets of checks stapled together to form a book, each set including two checks superposed and pasted together at one end of each of the two to provide a fastening independently of the staples, one of said two checks having a weakened line between the pasted portion and its opposite end, and a third superposed check to which one of said two checks is (ionnected at the end opposite the pasted en I 7. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in :ombination, a series of sets of ch ecks stapled together to form a book, each set including two checks superposed and pasted together at one end of each of the two to rovide a fastening independently of the stap es, one of.

said'two checks being opaque and having a weakened line close to the pasted portion between the pasted portion and its op osit/e with said opaque check at the end opposite the end pasted to said translucent check.

9. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a series of sets of checks having port-ions fastened together to form a book, each set including two checks superposed and pasted together at one end of each of the two independently of said fastened portions, one of said two checks having a weakened line between the pasted portion and its opposite end.

10. In a manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a series of sets of checks stapled together to form a book, each set including a plurality of checks, two checks of each set being superposed and pasted together on one end of each to provide a fastening independently of the staples, one of said two checks having a weakened line between the asted portion and its opposite end, where y the checks may be separated from such book and from each other leaving the pasted portion of one check adherent to the other check.

11. In a manitolding salesbook compris ing, in combination, a series of sets of checks, stapled together to form a book, each'set including a plurality of checks, two checks of each set being superposed and pasted together on one end of each to provide a fastening independenly of the staples, one of said two checks having a weakened line between the pasted portion and its opposite end and being opaque, the other of said two checks being translucent whereby said two checks may be separated from said book and from each other leaving the pasted portion of one check adherent to the other check.

12. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a'series of sets of checks bound together in book form, each set including three checks joined end to end with each other, one check forming the sole connection of the corresponding set of checks with the book, the other two checks being pasted together to form the above mentioned joint therebetween.

13. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a series of sets of checks bound together in book form, each set includin three checks joined end. to end with each ot er, one check forming the sole connection of the corresponding set of checks with the book, the other two checks being pasted together for a short distance at the ends to form the above mentioned joint there: between, one of the last two mentioned checks having a free end and'of uniform strength throughout, the other of said two checks having a weakened line adjacent the pasted area.

14. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a. series of sets of checks bound together in book form, each set ineluding three checks joined end to end with each other, one check forming the sole connection of the corresponding set of checks with the book the other two checks being pasted "together for ashort distance at the ends to form the above -mentioned joint therebetween, one of the last two mentioned cheeks being of translucent material.

15. A manifolding salesbook comprising, in combination, a series of checks'bound together in book form, each set including three checks joined end to end with each other, one check forming the sole connection of the corresponding set of checks of the book, the

other two checks being pasted together for a short distance at the ends to form the above mentioned joint there'between, one of the last mentioned checks being of translucent material and the other of said cheeks having a weakened line adjacent its pasted area.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE.

Witnesses:

A. L. GENITHIUR, ARTHUR HEPBEARD. 

